Making chicken poo is not that difficult, but it also must
contain something ‘organic’. But how can you get that effect? Well, it
‘automatically’ happened! I was in my kitchen, throwing away a used tea
bag, but it landed neatly just next to the bin and it burst open……grrr :S! While I cleaned it up, I got the idea to spread out this (green) tea on a saucer and for drying it on the central heating. After it was dry I’ve rubbed it a bit between my fingers and I had my odorless organic poo ;O!! Add some white,
black acrylic paint and glue, than you can smear it everywhere. I’ve enjoyed
playing with the muck in my hen house, hehehe!!

For finding out the somewhat black parts in the chicken poo, I've had some luck again. I had done some calculations with my pencil on a piece of paper and while I was waiting for the paint would be dry, I erased it with my synthetic eraser, which did left teeny tiny, black rolls on the paper: perfect: D! With a bit of white paint on it, done!

Under the roosts for the chickens of my Grandfather (in the 50s), there
were wooden frames, whereon gauze was nailed in order to catch most of the
chicken muck. This system saved a lot of time with the cleaning of the hen house. Together
with a bit of sawdust is this my miniature collector of most of the muck!

For laying an egg the chickens must have a nest, so I’ve
made a few of these and put them together in a (cardboard and wood) hutch.
This hutch was placed on wooden legs, but it became too high. I’ve shortened
the legs, whereby a shelter was emerged for the smallest baby chicks in the hen
house ;).

They have their own manger (which is made by Patricia, www.woolytalesminiatures.blogspot.com
), which is filled with special food for baby chicks. Together with some
sawdust they can potter about under the hutch with the nests, safely for the other hens.

These smallest baby chicks are made by me from Fimo clay and
flocking powder, look here:

50 opmerkingen:

That muck surely looks like the real thing. Well Ilona! Your chicken coop is lovely and I really like to see different types of project like this one. Instead of the usual house or rooms in a house, here it's something different but still super well made and very realistic. I particularly love the tiny chicks made by you.....so cute!! Hugs!

That muck surely looks like the real thing. Well Ilona! Your chicken coop is lovely and I really like to see different types of project like this one. Instead of the usual house or rooms in a house, here it's something different but still super well made and very realistic. I particularly love the tiny chicks made by you.....so cute!! Hugs!

Ilona, now I am not sure if these photos are from your minis or from the big world! Perhaps you should start marking the photos of your mini works some way. I think I feel dizzy... Great and beautiful work again Ilona!♥Hugs, piikko

I bet you would never have thought that being a miniaturist meant you needed to know how to make realistic chicken poo? Haha. It does look real too. And those tiny chicks..how did you manage something so small. I'm envious of your skills =0)

You clever clever person, that looks great! What a wonderful piece of art you have created. The inhabitants look very satisfied, nowonder, l could almost move in myself! Have a lovely week, Pam in Norway xx

Dear Ilona, I will say it again.... You are Amazing!!! You go way beyond the ordinary to make all the details precise and accurate... that is what makes you such a great miniaturist!!! I bet any other person trying to make mini chicken muck would be content with paint... globbed paint! But you want it to actually have organic matter in it!!! Wow!!!The tiny chicks are just adorable... I can almost hear them "peeping" and I can see them scurry under the shelter of the nesting boxes...! And the roost with the "poo catcher" is very ingenious!! What a wonderful and original project this one is!!!

Noone just looking at the last pictures would ever expect to be looking at a miniature project!!! Yes, it's parrot-time again, but I have no problem with repeating myself: YOU ARE INCREDIBLE!!! Even chicken poo is 100 % realistic when made by you - fantastic work... and especially with the tiny chicks.

Wow your chicken poop is amazing :) Fantastic project and everything looks so real. I love the tiny chicks. I love your projects they are always so wonderful and interesting and not the norm :DHugs Maria

that chicken poo mooks so realistic I canalmost smell it - you have got the atmosphere of the chicken coop just right, and it reminds me of my childhood - warm wood and soft feathers, and that very particular 'chicken poo smell'! I love your little chicks, just perfect for the early spring!

Oh wow! You have been busy (tell me, please, where did you get the energy :D ) The chicken coop is absolutely fantastic, I just love it. I wish I had seen it earlier, I was struggling to make a nest recently, love the way yours are, the material used works perfectly. All the details are fantastic. Great work Ilona!

This is amazing! So real!! I can almost smell that chicken poo, and I have a cold and can't smell anything at the moment, but this.. smells right out from the screen =)I'm glad you have your mini-eyes with you everywhere, seeing miniatures in everything =)Hannah

My dearest,I have missed several posts of yours and now I am here drooling over all these incredible things you have made. But this hen house and all the accessories is top of everything right now. Ilona, there is a picture there it looks so real ... its amazing. the other thing that I love when artists like you make is not necessarily the "perfection " of things but the imperfection that gives such a realism to everything... It gives a real "feeling" of atmosphere. So glad I was able to come.... :)Lovingly,